GRAND CHUTE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Last month a JV Neenah boys hockey game took a scary turn.
Champion Center General Manager Ken Weinaug was watching the game at the new sports complex. He tells FOX 11 he doesn’t remember much after that.
“The next thing I know, I was lying on my back looking up at the ceiling with EMTs around me.”
What he didn’t see was 17-year-old Kyra Eckes springing into action.
“I immediately was like Kathy, start CPR, who was my coworker because she was a lot more capable than my tiny self to do it.”
Eckes tells FOX 11 she had just learned CPR and AED training three weeks prior to the incident.
“I had 911 on the phone, somebody had given me their phone. I was talking to 911, holding his head back so the airway was free.”
While she was telling her coworker how to give CPR, she had someone get the AED and instructed them on how to use it.
“He finally regained consciousness and we were just so grateful to see him regain consciousness. The first responders said without the CPR he probably wouldn’t have made it to the hospital.”
Grand Chute police recognized Kyra, her coworker and a doctor on scene for their heroic actions.
“There was about 10 people there and nobody knew how to do CPR,” Eckes said.
Eckes says everyone should learn CPR– because you never think you’ll need it until you do.
Weinaug is sure glad Eckes made that life-saving decision.
“You write all these policies and procedures about what to do in emergency situations, and you have people trained and you try to do the right thing. But you never realize you’re going to write that policy and procedure training your people to save your life.”
Eckes is graduating from Neenah High School this year. She plans to study nursing at the University of Iowa.
